Ed Koch won the New York City mayoral race in 1977 while he was in the U.S. House of Representatives. In doing this, he became one of the few members of Congress who was able to turn Hill experience into a big-city mayoralty.

Organized labor and business leaders face their first major clash in a Democratic-held Congress over a bill that would make it easier for workers to form labor unions. Two Democrats, Rep. George Miller, Calif., and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Mass., plan to reintroduce the Employee Free Choice Act on Tuesday.

A New Yorker has interviewed an interesting assortment of congressional staffers, journalists and policy wonks on behalf of Iranian government officials, according to a recent supplemental filing with the Justice Department.

Two and a half months after I took the oath as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979, gavel-to-gavel television coverage of floor proceedings began. It's hard to even remember the time now when the House was not on television.

Right now, our commander in chief and those he commands are daring greatly and our brave warriors are paying with blood, sweat and tears. Yet, many in Congress prefer to sit in the arena stands and offer scorn rather than support.

Since the start of this war, the president's assertion of unprecedented power has gone dangerously unchecked by Congress. As a result, we are left with a war that bears no resemblance to the one Congress authorized in 2002.

"There is no country in the world that more directly, deliberately and self-consciously based itself on the Roman model," says Jonathan Stamp. "The founding fathers absolutely saw themselves as founding a new Rome."

"It's amazing how many memories are tossed aside on the street," said Anne Surak, curator of Project 4, a new contemporary art gallery on U Street NW. Surak was speaking of a recent show at Project 4, where found pictures were strewn about the space (even one with President Bush), but she could have been commenting on U Street as a whole: A place where old memories and new money have fused to re-create a vibrant neighborhood.

A few weeks ago, Chris Taylor, 23, looked over to see House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seated at the table next to him at Paparazzi in Georgetown. He would not have expected someone of her stature to eat at such a moderately priced restaurant. But perhaps, like Taylor, a staffer at the Republican National Committee, Pelosi had been let in on a little secret about dining out in D.C.: You don't have to spend a fortune to enjoy a meal out.

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, N.Y., and Barack Obama, Ill., have a long way to go before either can claim the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. But their weekend speeches to party faithful at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting won lots of new fans and supporters, at least online.